good gracious
Example Sentences
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“You were scratching your head and saying, good gracious what are they doing there? It shows you how tough those people are.”
From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2017
My gracious, my good gracious," laments a homeward-bound G.I. in Brewsie and Willie, "Oh my good gracious, oh my good gracious . . . my good gracious.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Why, good gracious, Dot, then here am I with ten dollars, and you with nothing of our prize money!
From Two Little Women by Wells, Carolyn
“But, good gracious me,” began Mrs Jefferson, with angry impatience.
From The Mystery of a Turkish Bath by Rita
"Packing! good gracious, child, you are not going away too?"
From Frances Kane's Fortune by Meade, L. T.